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Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

by Seth Dickinson (Goodreads Author)

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"as i don’t see the fourth book coming anytime soon, i have decided to start this (and what better day to continue one of my favourite series than on my birthday 🥰🥰)!" — Jul 21, 2026 08:51PM

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“The morning weighs on my shoulders with the dreadful weight of hope and I take the blue envelope which Jacques has sent me and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet, as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: ending, giovanni-s-room, hope, james-baldwin, last-lines, sad, symbolism

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“Good-bye, she thinks. Good-bye, kuye lam. I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

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“I’ll pay her bloody ransom. Gold, sapphires, whatever you want. Pull her out of there.” “You want her? Go get her.” So he did.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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“But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

tags: experience, growth, maturity, perspective

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